Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
KOLKATA, 5 OCT: The state government is planning to launch a five year plan for increasing the production of fish, rice and vegetables, state Agriculture Minister Rabindranath Bhattacharya said at Writers' Buildings today. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today held a meeting with Mr Bhattacharya, Agriculture Marketing Minister Arup Roy and …
The Supreme Court has given the government a week to frame a final pharma pricing policy, failing which the apex court may pass an interim order in public interest. A Bench, headed by Justice G S Singhvi, posted the matter for next hearing on October 9. In an observation, the …
Chandigarh: The Centre on Sunday rejected Punjab’s charge that it was “deliberately denying” the state a drought-relief package in the wake of deficient monsoon rains. “There is no such thing. There is no truth in this,” Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh told PTI in Mohali on the sidelines of …
The move could further delay implementation of the policy All India Drug Action Network, the non-government organisation that forced the government to regulate prices of 348 essential drugs, is set to challenge the pricing mechanism finalised by a group of ministers in the Supreme Court. The move could further delay …
Recommends prices of 348 drugs be fixed at weighted average price of brands with more than 1% market share. The Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to determine the country’s drug pricing policy will recommend that retail prices of 348 essential drugs be fixed at the weighted average price of …
The first meeting of the Group of Ministers on a proposed land acquisition law succeeded in narrowing down some of the differences of various ministries though a few contentious issues remain resolved. A watered down draft law put forward by the Rural Development Ministry had already addressed some of the …
A 12-member group of ministers (GoM) headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, formed to vet certain provisions in the controversial Land Acquisition Bill, met in New Delhi on Thursday, but did not take any decision on the draft legislation. The meeting took place amid criticisms from civil society activists that …
The Group of Ministers set up to propose a new drug-pricing policy on Thursday recommended a market-based mechanism to regulate prices of 348 essential medicines. The GoM has proposed to cap prices of these medicines at the weighted average price of drugs with a minimum of one per cent market …
New Delhi: The ministerial panel vetting the land acquisition Bill witnessed a demand on Thursday that it kick in retrospectively. Urban development minister Kamal Nath is reported to have argued that a window for applying the new Bill for old cases of acquisition should be retained. If the demand gains …
May incorporate an industry-friendly provision that will allow the government to acquire land for showcase projects such as the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial corridor. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh is expected to offer a significant concession to industry in the contentious land bill and incorporate a provision that will allow the government …
Draft Says Nod Of 66% Of Owners Against Earlier 88% Enough For Go-Ahead New Delhi: The rural development ministry has watered down the requirement of consent of 80% landowners for acquisition to 66% and eased some stringent measures for the award of compensation in the vexed land acquisition amendment Bill. …
GUWAHATI: State Agriculture Minister Nilamoni Sen Deka has requested Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to enhance the subsidy to at least 50 per cent for hybrid rice, high yielding varieties of paddy and pulse seeds under the scheme like National Food Security Mission (NFSM) as the Centre has been providing …
19 More Ministers Offer To Resign, Sharad Says No Mumbai: Maharashtra deputy chief minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar resigned from the Democratic Front government on Tuesday evening, in a dramatic development which brought to the fore his party’s simmering tension with the Congress but which should not lead to …
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Monday said that Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by him to consider the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill would clear the legislation in a week’s time. The GoM’s clearance may enable the land bill to be tabled in the Parliament in the …
Food: Although the overall rainfall deficiency has improved and is now only about five per cent below normal, the delayed monsoon is all set to adversely impact the kharif crop output this year. According to the first advance estimates, the foodgrain output this season will be about 10 per cent …
New Delhi: The government on Monday projected a 10% fall in foodgrains output during the kharif season this year at 117.18 million tonnes due to a deficient monsoon but expects the shortfall to be made up by winter crops. While production of rice — a major kharif (summer) crop — …
At an estimated 117.18 million tonnes, it is, however, “better than expected,” says Pawar At an estimated 117.18 million tonnes, kharif production is expected to fall short of the target by 11.84 million tonnes this year, what with the delayed and deficient monsoon hitting production of coarse cereals, pulses and …
Recently, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar had said that the gap in sowing area is wide in drought-affected states and production of coarse cereals and pulses is expected to be lower than last year. The government is finding it difficult to meet the foodgrain production target for the current kharif season …
Even as the Centre refused to acknowledge the scarcity of fertilisers in Odisha, agricultural experts apprehended low yield of rice this kharif due to less use of soil nutrients. The Government had supplied 2.02 lakh tonnes of fertilisers to the farmers till the end of August against over 2.75 lakh …
The panel of ministers tasked with the mandate to finalise the country’s drug pricing policy is expected to decide the crucial policy as early as next week after the apex court slammed the government for sitting on it for almost a decade. Two government officials familiar with the development said …
